Kitchen (TV series)

Kitchen
Genre
Created by
  • Vitaliy Shliappo
  • Vasily Kutsenko
  • Igor Tudvasev
  • Dmitry Yan
  • Pavel Danilov
Starring
Country of origin Russia
Original language(s) Russian
No. of seasons 6
No. of episodes 120
Production
Running time 25 minutes
Production company(s)
  • Yellow, Black and White
  • KeyStone Production
Release
Original network
  • STS (Russia)
  • STS International (Russia)
Picture format HDTV
Original release October 22, 2012 – March 31, 2016
External links
Website

Kitchen (Russian: Кухня, Kukhnya) is a Russian comedy series that airs on STS. The show focuses on the comedic events that unfold in a fictional restaurant in Moscow called "Claude Monet". Since the 5th season, the comedic events are unfold on the Hotel's restaurant.

Series overview

The series is set in Moscow and mainly focuses on the young and enthusiastic Maxim "Max" Lavrov, who dreams of becoming a great cook one day so he goes to work at Moscow's most expensive restaurant - "Claude Monet", whose owner is Dmitry Nagiev, a famous Russian actor. He, as well as the entire staff of the restaurant "Claude Monet" often end up in humorous situations. The show includes other characters like Max's best friend Konstantin, his love interest (and later wife) Viktoria and his boss - the chef of the restaurant, Viktor Barinov.

Cast

Production

The filming began on July 2012. The show became one of the most expensive TV series in Russia, with a budget of US$200,000 per episode (about $8 million per season). The first episode aired on STS Channel on October 22, 2012.

The second season began filming on November 1, 2012 and was aired on March 25, 2013.

In summer 2013, filming for the third season began. In September 2013, the production team filmed a feature-length film named The Kitchen in Paris. The movie has been premiered in cinemas on May 1, 2014, while the third season was aired in March 3, 2014. On March, 2014 a documentary film The Kitchen. A film about the film. aired on STS.

On April 2014, filming for the fourth season began, and the first episode was aired on October 13, 2014. On May 27, 2014 the production team started to work on a feature-length film named The Kitchen in China. The production started on July 2014.

Rating

The show has been very successful in Russia and in other countries of the former Soviet Union. The show made the channel STS the number 1 channel in the "21:00-21:30", surpassing Channel 1, HTB, Russia-1 and other channels. It also holds an 8/10 rating on IMDb.

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